Lambent

Word LAMBENT
Character 7
Hyphenation lam bent
Pronunciations /ˈlæmbənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Lambent"

What do we mean by lambent?

Flickering lightly. adjective

Having a gentle glow; luminous: synonym: bright. adjective

Light or brilliant. adjective

Licking.

Hence Running along or over a surface, as if in the act of licking; flowing over or along; lapping or bathing; softly bright; gleaming.

Playing on the surface; touching lightly; gliding over. adjective

Twinkling or gleaming; fickering. adjective

Brushing or flickering gently over a surface. adjective

Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat. adjective

Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness. adjective

Softly bright or radiant adjective

Brushing or flickering gently over a surface.

Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat.

Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Lambent

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The word "lambent" in example sentences

When he shot the sun at noon, the glow of achievement wrapped him in lambent flame. ❋ Unknown (1913)

They have a taste of native earth, beautifully rarefied: to change the metaphor, they illuminate the page with a kind of lambent common sense. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

More nightkind than usual were present, threaded like pearls through the mortal throng, and Dante had caught more than one lambent pair of eyes directed his way, burning with a cold and preternatural curiosity. ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2011)

Well-fed cats of all sizes and colors—tabby, calico, tortoiseshell—padded among the old graves or watched with lambent eyes from the benches positioned throughout the cemetery. ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2011)

Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction. ❋ James Scarborough (2011)

As Leigh did with 2008's "Happy-Go-Lucky," he and cinematographer Dick Pope have chosen a lush palette and expansive widescreen canvas to draw the audience into Tom and Gerri's lambent world, made all the more seductive by Gary Yershon's lyrical chamber score. ❋ Ann Hornaday (2011)

Salt, when dealt fuckall hands in a bathtub go pruny, grain of fizzy expands, as if to say steam clouds lambent, mid-air still you got to slip your ass out of there. ❋ Dennis Mahagin (2011)

An internal light source emits a lambent umber glow so that, in the gallery's dimly lit corner in which it sits, it looks like a meteor that just cratered into the floor. ❋ James Scarborough (2011)

Throughout the Impressionist galleries, the ceilings have been opened, cathedral style, to reveal structural beams, a nod to the Orsay's industrial aesthetic, and also to admit an ingenious blend of artificial and natural illumination that beautifully captures on shimmering, grayish-lavender walls the effect of lambent sunlight. ❋ Mary Tompkins Lewis (2011)

He stared at the ceiling, his eyes a lambent gleam in the darkness. ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2011)

He gazes with growing fear and wonder at the lambent pattern of particle tracks, and struggles to absorb the full implications. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

The laughter of her mind played like lambent flame over all about her, and from all about her arose answering laughter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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